dylanwinter
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I spent last week on the Tay and Earn - both are brilliant rivers for a bit of shallow sailing - and it was sunny
Up the Earn
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James_Calvert
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I'm feeling a bit dizzy! Looks lovely though, thank you.
dylanwinter
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real time version is here
not to everyone's taste
I am curious about the lives of the water bailiffs. The cottages are scattered all along the river - you are seldom out of site of them.
Were these guys just like night watchmen - was it a job and place for old retired farm workers or were they more active in the management of the river?
Were the cottages occupied all through the year?
it does not seem a bad place to spend your retirement.... lovely river and watching the tides, the birds and the fish.
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DanTribe
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Very nice Dylan but i think the pointy end with the little sail is supposed to be pointing in the direction you're headed.
I see you've picked up a young dolly bird as crew, does your wife know?
I see you've picked up a young dolly bird as crew, does your wife know?
dunedin
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Did you have your "not in command" day marks hoisted ?
Bit of a tide - was that the ebb?
Bit of a tide - was that the ebb?
dylanwinter
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It was the flood. The only time you can play these games is when the tide is rising
you can see and hear some terrible boat abuse going on here as we attempted to get across the microbar
Katie L is perfect for this sort of thing. A Centaur needs treating with more respect - although I am told a Centaur has been up there
Dylan
looking out for a a good Centaur with a fekked engine
you can see and hear some terrible boat abuse going on here as we attempted to get across the microbar
Katie L is perfect for this sort of thing. A Centaur needs treating with more respect - although I am told a Centaur has been up there
Dylan
looking out for a a good Centaur with a fekked engine
jimmcgee
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the water bailiffs were to keep the common plebs in check , only for the rich :encouragement:
jac
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Great scenery around there.
Lovely job Dylan.
Lovely job Dylan.
armchairsailor
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I think they might have been used more recently by salmon fishermen, who occasionally have licences to net on the Tay and Earn.
I was rather hoping you'd have filmed up a little further, as I used to stay in one of those cottages on the side of Moncrieff Hill. Takes me back: hours spent looking for the bloody dogs after they'd taken themselves off rabbit hunting...
dylanwinter
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I went up as far as the Bridge of Earn. I would like to see the river at spring lows. It is always rather odd seeing a river like this at high tide. We did overnight twice on the river in two of the deep water sections under the trees on the bends - 4.5m deep and with a 2m tide we had plenty of depth for Katie L's 13 inches.
It was a wonderful sail. It looks as though the weather is due to improve in the middle of next week so planning to gead north again on sunday or monday - Jill is working so it will be just me, the salmon, the dolphins and the whiskey bottle.
awol
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Have you no taste, man? "The Moray" was bad enough but "whiskey" - yuch!
dylanwinter
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I apologise if my use of spelling and language upsets you. Best not watch the real films which could contain the odd gobbett of KTL cryptohistory with a few home truths about Scotland
Wallace - terrorist and psychopath who murdered every Englishman he could find
The Bruce - whose claim to power related back to his lineage to a royal spread sheet jockey. He was a power hungry dictator who murdered his mate in a church. His perfidious father and grandfather swung both ways - regarding the English throne.
Jacobite rebellions - successful catholic funded (French and Spanish) initiatives to hoodwink the Clans into pointless invasions of England. The second one got down to Derby before they chickened out and realised that the French support was nothing more than empty words.
The clearances - it was a Scottish home grown atrocity inflicted on the Clansmen by their much loved Clan chiefs and central belt lowland puppet masters.
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Giblets
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I have to say, Dylan, that Jill almost surpasses Kate Winslet in the "bird on the front of a boat" stakes and can handle a mean paddle as well! :encouragement:
awol
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Dylan, there is a truth in your version of history but not the whole truth. All heroes are flawed, all politics are dirty and winners write their own version of history.
However, what does that have to do with your preferred tipple? Is the "e" a spelling mistake or do you really prefer Irish and/or Mercan alcohol?
However, what does that have to do with your preferred tipple? Is the "e" a spelling mistake or do you really prefer Irish and/or Mercan alcohol?
dylanwinter
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I have spent many years developing a robust palate and catholic tastes when it comes to grain based spirits - Mercan, Irish, Welsh, Indian, Turkish, Scottish Co-op. All is consumed without prejudice and solely for its medicinal benefits for the traveling sailor. I do find that a nip at four in the afternoon when energy and enthusiasm for a day long passage can start to flag brings new life to procedings. A celebratory nip soon after safe arrival in port or anchorage helps with correct securing of warps (properly dipped of course) and deployment of anchor balls and lights.
I used to work on the Food program on radio 4 with people who had proper palates who could discern the differences between 100 bottles of spirit or 1000 bottles of wine. To see people spit good alcohol out seems like a terribly wasteful thing to do.
So if anyone feels like sending/bringing me Scotch I would rather have a big bottle of cheap stuff than a small bottle of expensive sipping spirit.
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jac
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You lucky old sod. You really know how to live!!!!!!
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Very good, I like the drifting and anti-hard-done-history stance. Very inspiring. Off to Loch Lomond in the Wayfarer tomorrow with the boy, big boat is getting trucked to Inverkip a week on Monday, then Russia for a month, then launch in August. I am hopelessly behind but have decided sailing about in a workshop is better than not sailing about.
